-- French banking and insurance services provider Credit
Agricole (CAGR.PA) to acquire control over part of French fund
custody and fund administration company CACEIS (notified May
20/deadline June 29/simplified)

-- U.S. firm Safran USA, controlled by French aerospace
company Safran SA (SAF.PA), to acquire joint control of U.S.
detection products company General Electric Homeland Protection,
currently controlled by U.S. company General Electric (GE.N)
(notified May 26/deadline July 1/simplified)

JULY 6

-- U.S. biomedical and pharmaceutical company Pfizer (PFE.N)
to acquire U.S. pharmaceutical and healthcare company Wyeth
WYE.N (notified May 29/deadline July 6)

-- Luxembourg-based steelmaker ArcelorMittal (ISPA.AS) to
acquire sole control of Noble European Holdings BV, a Dutch
subsidiary of U.S. tailor-welded blanks maker Noble
International Ltd NOBLQ.PK (notified June 2/deadline July 7)

JULY 8

-- UK oil and gas company BP (BP.L) and U.S. chemical
products company Dupont (DD.N) to acquire joint control of U.S.
company Biobutanol LLC, which develops and licenses technology
related to the commercial production of biobutanol (notified
June 3/deadline July 8)

-- German healthcare and pharmaceutical group Celesio AG
(CLSGn.DE), controlled by Franz Haniel & Cie GmbH, to take sole
control of Pharmexx GmbH, which provides temporary employment
services to pharmaceutical companies (notified June 3/deadline
July 8/simplified)

-- Kazakh oil company Cooperatieve KazMunaiGaz PKI U.A.,
controlled by Kazakh national oil and gas company JSC National
Company KazMunaiGaz RDGZ.KZ; and Austria's Euraisian Energy
Holdings GmbH, controlled by China's largest oil and gas
producer, China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) [CNPET.UL], to
take joint control of Kazakh oil and gas company JSC
Mangistaumunaigaz (notified June 12/deadline July 17/simplified)

The European Commission has 25 working days after a deal is
filed for a first-stage review. It may extend that to 35 working
days, to consider either a company's proposed remedies or an EU
member state's request to handle the case.

Most mergers win approval but occasionally the Commission
opens a detailed second-stage investigation for up to 90
additional working days, which it may extend to 105 working
days.

SIMPLIFIED:

Under the simplified procedure, the Commission announces the
clearance of uncontroversial first-stage mergers without giving
any reason for its decision. Cases may be reclassified as
non-simplified -- that is, ordinary first-stage reviews -- until
they are approved.

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scaled back their bullish bets on U.S. crude oil in the days
ahead of a landmark deal by the world's top crude exporters to
cut production and rein in a global glut, data showed on Friday.
The speculator group cut its combined futures and options
position in New York and London by 2,418 contracts to 189,677
during in the week to Nov. 29, the U.S. Commodity Futures
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